I sure love my Stumble Button. I’ve mentioned it before. And one day, I came across a website full of beautiful sugar cookie creations. Sugarbelle has the most amazingly adorable cookies I have ever seen. I wanted one. I needed one! I wanted one to look at and hold and smell. They were really too pretty to be edible!
I immediately shared the website with Cheryl because she loves it when I share sugar with her. We decided that we could totally do that. How hard could it possibly be?
Um…hard.
I started out excited and with high hopes that I could create something pretty. I don’t generally love sugar cookies, so I used the recipe for Sugarbaker’s Chocolate Mini-Chip cookies that I found on Sugarbelle’s website.
Rolling sugar cookies sucks ass. I destroyed an entire batch at Christmas. I think I use too much flour or something, because they end up super dry and crumbly and utterly unusable. With this batch of chocolate chips, I did the same thing. About 1/4 of the dough just wasted. It was a darn shame.
The ones I managed to cut out baked up nicely. Tasty!
Then came the decorating. I could not find meringue powder to make my royal icing (I kinda decided to try this on short notice). So I had to make it with egg whites. Hey, I’m not one of those that freak out of raw eggs. I let my kids lick the batter bowls all the time. I used this recipe for my icing. It was not as delicious as I had hoped, but I guess it’s pretty normal that royal icing is not as yummy as buttercream. The sacrifice you make for pretty.
I have to say that I think my icing came out pretty well. It was a good consistency and I didn’t have a hard time with it. My first round was a pretty blue. My trouble came when I decided instead of leaving it a pretty blue, that I would try and make the flooding icing green. I added green to my already pretty blue and ended up with this ugly sea foam barf color.
Flooding these cookies with icing was tedious but I made it through and after (what seemed like) many hours I finally finished my cookies.
When all is said and done, I’m not sure decorated cookies are up my alley. They sure are beautiful to look at, but man, it was a lot of work! I just don’t think I have the patience or creativity to make show stoppers like Sugarbelle. Maybe I’ll try again and decided.
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I think they look great for a first attempt, probably way better than I would do.
Thank you!
Your funny…this is why I don’t cook. It takes to damn long, lol!!! Actually..I do cook, and I’m a good cook…I just hate not having time to cook. Now..back to cookies. I have a really good sugar cookie recipe if you want to try it. I however do not have patience…I hate rolling out and cutting out and waiting to cool and decorating. So I ALWAYS make a half batch…quicker…and I’ve never had my dough get dry and yucky! If you want to try it..let me know!
I love baking! But I’m a total instant gratification person. The waiting for icing to dry was for the birds!
You just made me want to bake!
I’ve only done flooding a couple of times, but the second time seemed so much easier than the first. I bet next time will seem much easier. Did you use a squirt bottle for the flooding? That makes it much easier.
I didn’t have a bottle…it was kind of spur of the moment. I only had a pastry bag.
I’ll definitely try again…with bottles.
And BTW, I think they look good- and tasty!!!
Well, I think they are beautiful and much better than mine would have turned out. I am awful at creativity and baking though, so it doesn’t take much to beat me. Yours look delicious though!
Do you sift your flour? If you sift it and then measure it out without ‘packing’ it in you might have better luck. I think they look amazing and I’d put one (or 10) in my belly no problem!
I have no idea what cookie flooding is (is that what happens when you dip it in the glass of milk?!) but I think those look nice and tasty!
I think I’m terrible. I want to make these just to show you up, but then mine will probably turn out even worse and you’ll hold it over my head for all eternity. It’s on. If mine don’t turn out well, I’ll just eat the evidence.